But Moyes is a failure. Don't give me all that nonsense about him having no money at Everton, I would expect any manager managing a club the size of Everton to achieve at least one trophy over an ELEVEN year period!! Look at all the poor clubs that won one in that time and since.
Seems to me that his defenders think that he is the right man because he 'knows the club'. Big whoop, why not other managers completely bereft of talent who that can apply to - Stubbs? Alan Irvine? The club will also have changed a lot since his time here, as has the league itself. His methods were completely outdated by the end of his Everton tenure and he has shown nothing in his subsequent managerial posts that would contradict that.
I think the amazing amount of passion and determination that Dunc got the team to demonstrate has distorted everyone's idea of Moyes' time in a positive way. We were mentally weak, pressed poorly, rarely tackled like we did on Saturday, played one man up top every week, were slow, sat too deep, allowed crosses to come on with ease, relief to heavily on attacking crosses into the box, played loyal yes men over younger hungrier players and only played youngsters when injuries forced us to.
Also, Dunc's positivity is absolutely not what Moyes was like. He was called sour Davey for a reason. He would kill player's and fan's enthusiasm with negative, defeatist comments and massaged expectations. Also, those people who think Moyes with Ferguson as no.2, grooming him to take over, have a look at yourselves! A man of Moyes' ego allowing that? Cooing with having someone determined that we should be the best and more popular with the fans than him? Yeah right!
I agree that there is a major unknown quantity to these coaches we've been linked with, but that is a gamble worth taking if we want to improve - it might pay off. Whereas with Moyes, we know it wasn't good enough and was frustrating then, why would it be any better now? I personally think it would be more damaging and we would be worse off in the long run if we reappointed this loser.